The noise of the party was deafening, but Emily felt completely alone. She hugged the wall, nursing a lukewarm beer. She was supposed to be enjoying herself, but a familiar hollow ache settled in her chest. She had confided in "WhisperingWillow" about how she felt, how she thought everyone at the party was better than she was. They had planned to meet at some point, but had cancelled. A message appeared, "Just saw you by the bar. Are you okay?" She wanted to run.

Emotion: miserable

Cluster: Sadness / Despair
PC1 (Valence): -2.19 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.87

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion miserable. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 miserable stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the miserable emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the miserable vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😞0.369
无法0.321
無法0.270
💔0.265
😔0.262
Suppressed:
de-0.490
la-0.329
B-0.300
l-0.292
/-0.224